"No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs"

"Music is my religion"

"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"

"I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love"

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music"

"I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame"

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

"Music is the best way for me to say I love you"

"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music"

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best"

"But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not"